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Cultivate Spot-On Eyelid Procedure Coding With These 5 Tips

Published on Mon Feb 20, 2023

Look to the blepharoptosis repair codes when the fix involves muscle modification. Two of the main non-ocular culprits of visual impairment are excess skin that hangs over the edge of the eyelid and a lower-than-normal position of the eyelid relative to the pupil. While the eyelid procedures performed to correct the underlying problem are relatively straightforward, the coding for these [...]
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